5.1 Assignment: Reading and Remediation Getting Started Viewing the videos and practicing using the practice Excel file with its video can prepare you for the work needed on the research report. In order to successfully complete this exercise, you should be able to: Review videos about statistics fundamentals. Practice with the Excel file provided. Resources File: WS5Practice File: WS5Homework Video: Chi-Square Video: Chi-Square Testing Textbook: OpenIntro Statistics File: Chi-Square_10by10.xlsx Background Information Providing background and descriptive statistics is like a literature review section of a dissertation. You review and communicate the analysis on the raw data. You present visual representations of the data to give meaning to the raw data. Instructions Watch the following video on chi-square: Watch the Excel remediation videos on chi-square testing: Chi-Square Testing  using the Chi-Square_10by10.xlsx  file.  An optional supplementary textbook is OpenIntro Statistics , and you can read the concepts there. Use the lab file WS5Practice  to practice the Excel skills (includes an Excel hands-on video inside the spreadsheet as a link). Use the file WS5Homework  to demonstrate the Excel skills. Each of the three problems is worth 20 points, for a total of 60 points possible for this assignment. When you have completed your assignment, save a copy for yourself and submit a copy to your instructor by the end of the workshop. ================================================= 5.2 Assignment: Summarizing Raw Data Getting Started Being able to summarize data using pivot tables is a crucial skill to develop in business and research. Excel provides a powerful pivot table tool that is heavily used in finance, accounting, information technology, and other business areas. In this course, the skill is used to support a chi-square analysis. In order to successfully complete this assignment, you should be able to: Summarize data into a contingency table from raw data using pivot tables. Resources File: WS5-2_PivotTables File: WS5-2_PivotAssignment Instructions Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade. Read the file WS5-2_PivotTables . After reading the Word document, open the file WS5-2_PivotAssignment . Create the appropriate summary tables called contingency tables. Turn in an Excel file showing the pivot table you have created. When you have completed your assignment, save a copy for yourself and submit a copy to your instructor by the end of the workshop. =============================================== 5.4 Assignment: Create Categorical Hypothesis Getting Started After the prior activities, the analysis section can be written for the research report. Since there are three analyses to perform, this is a partial assignment for the analysis section. In order to successfully complete this assignment, you should be able to: Wri.

1. 5.1 Assignment: Reading and Remediation
Getting Started
Viewing the videos and practicing using the practice Excel file
with its video can prepare you for the work needed on the
research report.
In order to successfully complete this exercise, you should be
able to:
Review videos about statistics fundamentals.
Practice with the Excel file provided.
Resources
File: WS5Practice
File: WS5Homework
Video: Chi-Square
Video: Chi-Square Testing

2. Textbook:
OpenIntro Statistics
File: Chi-Square_10by10.xlsx
Background Information
Providing background and descriptive statistics is like a
literature review section of a dissertation. You review and
communicate the analysis on the raw data. You present visual
representations of the data to give meaning to the raw data.
Instructions
Watch the following video on chi-square:
Watch the Excel remediation videos on chi-square testing:
Chi-Square Testing
using the
Chi-Square_10by10.xlsx
file.
An optional supplementary textbook is
OpenIntro Statistics
, and you can read the concepts there.
Use the lab file
WS5Practice
to practice the Excel skills (includes an Excel hands-on video
inside the spreadsheet as a link).

3. Use the file
WS5Homework
to demonstrate the Excel skills. Each of the three problems is
worth 20 points, for a total of 60 points possible for this
assignment.
When you have completed your assignment, save a copy for
yourself and submit a copy to your instructor by the end of the
workshop.
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5.2 Assignment: Summarizing Raw Data
Getting Started
Being able to summarize data using pivot tables is a crucial
skill to develop in business and research. Excel provides a
powerful pivot table tool that is heavily used in finance,
accounting, information technology, and other business areas.
In this course, the skill is used to support a chi-square analysis.
In order to successfully complete this assignment, you should
be able to:
Summarize data into a contingency table from raw data using

4. pivot tables.
Resources
File: WS5-2_PivotTables
File: WS5-2_PivotAssignment
Instructions
Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for
earning your grade.
Read the file
WS5-2_PivotTables
.
After reading the Word document, open the file
WS5-2_PivotAssignment
.
Create the appropriate summary tables called contingency
tables.
Turn in an Excel file showing the pivot table you have created.
When you have completed your assignment, save a copy for
yourself and submit a copy to your instructor by the end of the
workshop.

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5.4 Assignment: Create Categorical Hypothesis
Getting Started
After the prior activities, the analysis section can be written for
the research report. Since there are three analyses to perform,
this is a partial assignment for the analysis section.
In order to successfully complete this assignment, you should
be able to:
Write part of the analysis section for a data set.
Resources
File: Research Report Patients
Your most recent research report
Background Information
This is one of the more detailed assignments in this course. You
will write your third analysis for the report.

6. Instructions
Study the
Research Report Patients
file.
In your report, fill out the third analysis section, including any
statistics and graphs and interpretation on the analysis.
When you have completed your assignment, save a copy for
yourself and submit a copy of the research report to your
instructor by the end of the workshop.
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5.2 Discussion: The Euro
Getting Started
International business, out of necessity, requires international
currencies. Even when an imported product is bought and sold
in U.S. dollars, workers and vendors must be paid in the local
currency. This requires exchanging currencies somewhere in the
process. In this assignment you will examine how currency
exchange rates are determined and the factors affecting other

7. international financial flows.
Upon successful completion of this discussion, you will be able
to:
Determine what macro policies the countries in the European
Union are following regarding their economies.
Resources
Textbook:
Economics for Managers
Website: American Express
Website: Lumen: Microeconomics
Background Information
The euro came into existence on January 1, 1999, although it
had been a goal of the European Union (EU) and its
predecessors since the 1960s. After tough negotiations,
particularly due to opposition from the United Kingdom, the
Maastricht Treaty entered into force in 1993 with the goal of
creating an economic and monetary union by 1999 for all EU
states except the United Kingdom and Denmark. The euro has
since become a major international currency.
Instructions

8. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for
earning your grade.
Utilizing the two sources of information below, explain the
factors that can affect the relative value of one currency to
another in the global economy.
American Express
Lumen: Microeconomics
Again, using the same two sources, explain why U.S. presidents
often favor a “lower dollar” over the course of their presidency.
Explain the relationship between the relative value of the dollar
and its relationship to U.S. exports and imports.
Posit the effect of the relative value of the US dollar and the
impact on US GDP. Using the equation for GDP, GDP = C + I
+G + (X-M), which of the various components of GDP would be
most affected by changing currency levels? Explain.
Your initial response should be 400 to 600 words in length and
include two academic sources that are properly cited. It is due
by the end of the fourth day of the workshop.

9. Now conduct a critical analysis of a posting by two of your
classmates by the end of the workshop.
The topic of your discussion response should be your
classmate’s posting and should be written as if you were
reviewing his/her posting in an academic journal. Your
discussion response should, therefore, answer the following
questions as applicable:
Were your classmate’s arguments articulate and logical? Were
the facts correct?
Was the interpretation your classmate provided reasonable and
consistent with experts in the field? Was your classmate
consistent with both the substance and intent of his/her
references?
The focus for your critical analysis is not whether or not you
agree with your classmate, but how well his/her position was
presented. Each response should be at least 200 words in length
and cite two academic sources. Please strive to make your
discussion responses ones that cause iron to sharpen iron.
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5.3 Assignment: Currency Exchange Response

10. Getting Started
What happens to the exports of products produced in the U.S.
when the U.S. dollar is strong compared to some foreign
currency? When it is weak? Since individual business managers
have no ability to affect exchange rates, managers must at least
thoroughly understand the impact of exchange rates on imports
and exports in order to adjust plans for exchange rate
fluctuations. This assignment will help you better understand
these issues and how exchange rate fluctuations may affect your
organization.
Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able
to:
Analyze how several firms, including your own, are adapting to
the changing international environment.
Resources
Textbook:
Economics for Managers
Background Information
Managers are affected by currency exchange rates because these
exchange rates influence the prices of both the firm’s inputs and
its outputs if the firm sells its products or purchases its raw

11. materials abroad. An increase in a nation’s exchange rate hurts
domestic firms that export to other countries but helps firms
that import their raw materials from out of the country.
Instructions
Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for
earning your grade.
In current news publications, find three examples similar to
those in Chapter 15, of the strategic responses of individual
businesses to globalization and changes in the currency
exchange rates. One of these examples may be your own
organization.
Create a table as shown below that compares and contrasts how
each firm (including your employer) is reacting to the changing
business environment.
Defend your answers with clear, insightful thinking.
The table should fit on one page with a reference list on the
second page.
Submit your table and reference list by the end of the workshop.
CompanyQuestion 1: What internal actions is the firm taking in
response to changing currency rates?Question 2: What external
actions is the firm taking in

12. response to changing currency rates?
Company 1Company 2Company 3
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5.4 Discussion: Other Influences
Getting Started
In addition to exchange rates, there are many other international
influences on the domestic economy. Astute managers must
understand these issues in order to make better decisions and
plans about the future and craft better organization strategies.
Upon successful completion of this discussion, you will be able
to:
Evaluate international influences on the domestic economy.
Background Information
Managers need to understand the impact of international
economic events on the level of economic activity in the
domestic economy and in those countries where they have
substantial markets. Managers must also be able to analyze the

13. implications of these changes for the competitive strategies of
their own firms and those of their major competitors.
Instructions
Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for
earning your grade.
Choose one of the following five global companies and
investigate the company’s earnings in its latest quarter. Explain
how currency fluctuations across the globe have affected
earnings. Search each of the latest financial reports to find such
information. Make sure you research the information from the
perspective of currency fluctuations on revenue, earnings, and
global market share. This will require 400-600 words of APA
style narrative with at least three sources of information from
credible sources.
Caterpillar
Procter and Gamble
John Deere
YUM! Brands (KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut)
Coca Cola
Your initial response should be 400 to 600 words in length and
include three academic sources that are properly cited. It is due
by the end of the fourth day of the workshop.

14. Now conduct a critical analysis of a posting by two of your
classmates' by the end of the workshop.
The topic of your discussion response should be your classmates
posting and should be written as if you were reviewing his/her
posting in an academic journal. Your discussion response
should, therefore, answer the following questions as applicable:
Were your classmates arguments articulate and logical? Were
the facts correct?
Was the interpretation your classmate provided reasonable and
consistent with experts in the field? Was your classmate
consistent with both the substance and intent of his/her
references?
The focus for your critical analysis is not whether or not you
agree with your classmate, but how well his/her position was
presented. Each response should be at least 200 words in length
and cite two academic sources. Please strive to make your
discussion responses ones that cause iron to sharpen iron.
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